Some of the best books I've ever read, and definitely the best English you'll ever find!!! You know, in America, they actually teach courses in his writing styles and techniques... He's that good.

No wonder that place has gone down the drain.

Actually its not his writing style that I dislike the most. The characters seem pretty one dimensional. Thomas himself is either always angry (for no apparent reason) or just whiny. The rest of the cast could be lifted from any other average schlop movie/book.

Like I said I got almost a hundred pages in and not too many interesting things are happening.

The only reason I'm willing to give it a go is because I felt the same when reading MS&T but that turned out pretty well.

Some of the best books I've ever read, and definitely the best English you'll ever find!!! You know, in America, they actually teach courses in his writing styles and techniques... He's that good.

No wonder that place has gone down the drain.

Actually its not his writing style that I dislike the most. The characters seem pretty one dimensional. Thomas himself is either always angry (for no apparent reason) or just whiny. The rest of the cast could be lifted from any other average schlop movie/book.

Like I said I got almost a hundred pages in and not too many interesting things are happening.

The only reason I'm willing to give it a go is because I felt the same when reading MS&T but that turned out pretty well.

BTW its Lord Fouls Bane I'm reading.

Fair enough buddy. You're wrong though, just for the record. If you finish the trilogy you'll know what I mean, but I understand the intimdation. You might find the Fool series (by Robin Hobb) easier to read! Enjoy.

Actually I strongly (but not vehemently, ) disagree there. The opinion is valid since it is his, but the conclusion is invalid since it is based on 100 pages of the first book.

The characters seem pretty one-dimensional. Thomas himself is either always angry (for no apparent reason) or just whiny. The rest of the cast could be lifted from any other average schlop movie/book.
Like I said I got almost a hundred pages in and not too many interesting things are happening.

Covenant does not even get to "The Land" until page 49 for the record. A little too early to say that he is always angry for some reason, and the fact that you have not even met a tenth of the characters in the books, (especially the Giants, the Ravers and the Haruchai) means that this opinion has not had enough time to gestate.

If this were a computer game review, we would all be bristling at the fact that the reviewer had played half an hour of Shadow of the Collosus (for example), and then decided that it was pants...

Now are we gonna agree to disagree, or shall I go get my fire-fighting gear?

matrim83 wrote:
Some grade A stuff in there. I kinda envy you, esp. if you are going to play them for the first time.

Yup, all first time run throughs. A couple (Halo and original SC) I've had since I bought my XBox 4 years ago, looked at the first level and cast aside. 360 BC mode has made me buy more Xbox games in a short period of time than I ever did for the Xbox1

Hold on. Games review website owner says "I cant find enough time to play games"? Maybe you're doing something wrong? I mean, look at what your staff are doing. You do realise you're paying them to play games right?

Pretty much put everything on hold because I've been trying to play through Mass Effect again before the sequel. Having certain achievements unlocks things for it, but they're such a damn pain to get. I'd nominate it for game with the least fun achievements ever.

GTA IV
Endless Ocean (started, enjoyed it a lot, but never took the notion to play it since oddly)
Gears of War (played a bit from the beginning, didn't like)
Gear of War 2 (no point playing this therefore)
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the new World